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UNITED STATES 'PATE FE.

ANDREW HELDRICH, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA ASSIGNOB, TO CADE MANU- FACTURING COMPANY, OF SHELBY, NORTH CAROLINA, A. CORPORATION OF NORTH CAROLINA.

TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE.

Application filed April 4,

To all whom. it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, ANDREW HBLDRICH, a citizen of the Ynited States. residing at Philadelphia. in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Typographic-a1 Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in typographical machines and more especiallv to line-composing "and type-casting machines of the class embodying a set of rotatable or shiftable magazines containing fonts of matrices and spacers. in conjunction with means for causing rotation of the different magazines to bring the selected matrices or spacers therein to a common assembling pointto compose a line which is justified and then presented to a mold for the casting of a type slug therefrom, machines of this general class being shown and described, for example, in the prior patents to Baylus Cade Nos. 1,084,395, granted January 13, 1914, and 1,257,185, granted February 19,1918, and the patent to Baylus Cade and myself No. 1,035,416, granted August 13, 1912.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a novel and improved machine of the kind referred to, wherein the matrices and spacers are removable or detachable from their respective magazines and are received by and assembled in a matrix-gatherer, the gathered matrices and spacers being then presented to a mold and after justification, a type slug is cast from the line, the matrices and spacers being subsequently returned to their proper places in the respective magazines, the magazines being then in readiness for operation to bring the matrices and spacers selected to form the next line, to the gatherer.

Another object of the invention is to provide a novel and improved matrix-gatherer which is capable of receiving the selected matrices and spacers from a row of magazines and of gathering together the matrices and spacers so that the bodies thereof are brought together in compact contacting relation preparato'ry to a cast, the line of matrices and spacers being so gathered as to enable it to be clamped endwise by a Serial 1T0. 458,447.

to their proper places in the respective magazines.

Another object of the invention is to provide a matrix or line gatherer of the kind described, with means whereby the matrices and spacers composing the line, are equalized and compensation is made for variatious in the number and the aggregate thickness of matrices contained in each half of the line measure.

A further object of the invention is to provide a gatherer wit-h cooperative slides or equivalent members, one of which ope'rates to transfer the selected matrices and spacers from the magazine to the gatherer, and the other of which operates to return the matrices and spacers from the gatherer to the magazines.

Other objects of the invention are to provide novel and improved means for justifying the line of matrices and spacers, for alining the matrices relatively to the mold, and to provide novel and improved means for otherwise handling or manipulating the line to prepare it for the casting of a type slug therefrom.

To these and other ends, the invention consists in certain improvements and combinations and arrangements of parts, all as will be hereinafter -more fully described, the features of novelty being pointed out particularly in the claims at the end of the specification.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a portion of a line-composing and type-casting machine constructed in accordance with the present invention;

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the mechanism shown in Figure 1;

Figure 3 represents a transverse ve'rtical section on the line 3-3 of Figure 1, and looking in the direction of the arrows;

Figure 4 represents, on an enlarged cale,

a transverse section on the line 4-4 of Figure 1, and looking in the direction of the arrows;

Figure 5 represents a longitudinal vertical section on'- the line 5-5 of Figure 6, looking in the direction of the arrow;

Figure 6 represents a section on the line 6-6 of Figure 5, looking in the direction of the arrow;

Figure 7 shows in detail and on an enlarged scale, one of the matrix magazines and the cooperative comb or member for transferring a matrix or spacer therefrom to the linegatherer;

Figure 8 is a detail perspective view, on an enlarged scale, of a portion of the matrixmagazine;

Figure 9 represents a section 0 the line 9-9 of Figure 8 looking in the digection of the arrow;

Figure 10 is a perspective view of the line-gatherer and the cooperative mold;

Figure 11 represents a section through the 'line-gatherer and the mold, taken longitudinally of the machine, this figure also showing the cooperative relation between the line-gatherer and the magazines for the transfer of matrices and spacers between these elements of the machine;

Figure 12 is a face View of the line-gatherer;

Figure 13 representsa section on the line 1313 of Figure 12;

Figure 14 is a bottom plan View of the line-gatherer Figure 15 is a detail perspective view showing collectively, but in detached relation, one end ofthe line-gatherer and the end-piece and extensible abutment:

Figure 16 is a detail perspective View of one of the s acers;

Figu of the spacer showing it in expanded and contracted condition respectively;

Figure 19 is a detail perspective view of one of the matrices;

Figure 20 is a detail perspective view of a (Fad;

igure 21 is a detail perspective view of one of the matrix-receivers contained in the gatherer;

Figure 22 represents, on an enlarged scale, a longitudinal section taken through a portion of the matrix-gatherer and showing a line of matrices and spacers gathered together;

Figure 23 represents a section taken longitudinally through the opposite end of the matrix-gatherer, showing the manner in which the matrix-receivers equalize the line of matrices when the aggregate thickness'of the matrices in one-half of the line measure exceeds the aggregate thickness of the matrices in the remainder of the line;

Figure 24 shows the mold in elevation res 1 and 18 are perspective views and the cooperative matrix-gatherer partly in section;

Figure 25 represents a section on the line 25-25 of Figure 24 and looking in the direction of the arrows;

Figure 26 is a detail diagrammatic view showing the operating means for the comb swinging the matrix-gatherer to carry the 4 line to and from cooperative relation with the mold;

Figure 30 shows the justifying means; Figure 31 illustrates the means for advancing the metal pot to bring its mouthpiece into cooperative relation with the mold;

Figure 32 shows the means for actuating I the metal-injecting pump of the metal pot;

Figures 33 and 34 show in detail the alining means which brings the line of matrices into alinement relatively to the r mold.

Similar parts are designated by the same reference characters in the several views.

The improvements hereinafter described and claimed are applicable generally to line-composing and type-casting machines of the class wherein the matrices and spacers are contained in rotatable, or otherwise shiftable, magazines arranged in a row, the magazines rotating or shifting, under the control of a suitable keyboard mechanism to bring the selected matrices or spacers to a common line for assembly, the patents to Baylus Cade,'No. 1,084,395, granted January 13, 1914. and No. 1,257,185, granted February 19, 1918, and the patent to Baylus Cade and myself No. 1,035,416, granted August 13, 1912, being examples of machines of this general class, the present invention being particularly devised as an improvement upon themachines shown and described in the patents referred to. The preferred embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawings and the claims.

The machine in. the present instance comprises a suitable base 1 which supports appropriate frames which contain the different elements of the machine and their operatin mechanisms, the frame 2 supporting the ieyboard and related matrix-selecting means (which forms no part of the invention herein claimed), the matrix magazines, and the matrix-gatherer, together with their operating mechanisms, and the frame 3 supporting the casting apparatus and its operating mechanism. The matrix magazines may be constructed in different ways, but they are preferably composedpf a series of annular members or plates 4, assembled in a row side-by-side on a common axis. Each annular member or plate 4, according to the present invention, is constructed to contain a font or set of matrices and an expansible spacer, each matrix M (Figs. 8 and 19) comprising a body m. having preferabl parallel fiat sides, a character m in one e ge of the body, and a narrowed or reduced fin or tongue "2- projecting from the opposite edge of its body, each matrix also having a lug m projecting beyond the character-bearing edge of its body. In the present instance, one face of each annular member or plate 4 is provided with a series of substantially radially-extending bars 5 forming spaces between them, into which matrices may be introduced from their outer end, and a spring 6 is fixed to each bar and is provided with a resilient .part 7 beneath which the fin or tongue at of the adjacent matrix may enter and be frictionally clamped against the underlying bar 5, as will be clear from Figure 9, each matrix being thereby held in its respective matrix-receiving pocket or space in the member or ring 4, by friction, which will permitany one of these matrices to be removed from or returned to the magazine when suflicient force is applied to such matrix, but the friction will be suflicient to prevent accidental detachment of the matrices from the magazine. At least one of the spaces or pockets in each magazine contains a spacer S which is preferably of the wedge or expansible type, as will be clear from Figures 15, 16 and 18, each spacer comprising a body a which has the general outline of the body of the matrix M, the body having a fin or tongue 8' of reduced thickness projecting from one of its edges and a lug 8 projects from its opposite edge. and one side of the bodv of the spacer is beveled or tapered to receive a tapered member or wedge 8 the wedge and body of the spacer being slidably connected by a dove-tail rib and groove connection a. It will be understood that when the wedge s is shifted relatively to the body of the spacer, as shown in Figure 17, the effective thickness of the spacer, measured in the direction of the length of the'line, will be increased, whereas when the wedge occupies its opposite position, as shown in Figure 18, the effective thickness of the spacer is at its minimum.

ery of the magazine and returned to the,

magazine by a movement which will push the matrix or spacer radially inward into its respective space or pocket. v

The magazines aremounted in a row, one beside the other and on a common axis, as before stated, and they are spaced apart axially for a distance sufficient to enable the magazines to rotate individually or relatively to one another, without interference. Preferably, the magazines are rotatably supported by a suitable number or sets of rollers 8, three of these sets of rollers being shown in the present instance, which are spaced preferably at equal anglesabout the axis of the magazines. and the rollers of eachset are individually rotatable on a supporting shaft 9, the end of these shafts being mounted in a pair of end plates 10 which are provided with lugs 11, by which they are bolted or otherwise secured immovably to the top of the frame 2-. In order to facilitate removal of one set of magazines and the insertion of another set of magazines, the ends of the supporting shafts 9, whichrest in the end plates 10. may be formed eccentrically with respect to the axes of rotation of the rollers, the shafts being set so that the rollers occupy their outermost positions when the magazines are in place and being rotatable to move the axes of rotation of the rollers inwardly, when it is desired to remove or insert magazines. The rollers are preferably flanged, as shown, to provide circumferential ribs 12, it being understood that the inner circumferences of the annular members or rings 4 rest on the surfaces of the rollers between the flanges of adjacent rollers and that the flanges will occupy positions between adjacent magazines .and will thereby serve to space the magazines and to maintain them in properly spaced relation. The end plates 10 are rigidly' butdetachably united by tie members 13 which extend across the space formed within the annular magazines and are bolted or otherwise detachably secured to the end plates.

By the construction just described, it will be understood that each of the magazines is individually rotatable to bring a selefted matrix or a spacer therein, to the assembling point. Difi'erent means may be em- 

